A time when I regretted lying

It was a sunny and beautiful day. The sky was sapphire blue, and the bright sun was shining radiantly in the middle of the sky. The clouds floating in the sky appeared like cotton fluffs, conjuring up a myriad of shapes and images. After eating my delicious breakfast, I went to the living room to watch my favourite show on the television. It was the last episode. I had waited for one week to see it, as there was only one episode per week. The show was becoming more and more interesting. As the show was ongoing, I was getting more and more excited, as if I was playing hide and seek with my friends.

Suddenly, my mum called me out loud. I asked her, “Yes?” She replied me, “Come and help me out with my cooking!” “Wait! Let me finish watching this show,” I answered her. She added at the top of her voice, “Don’t wait! Quick! Come and help me straightaway!” as though she was using a mike.

I felt really annoyed at the moment. “I just wanted to finish watching the show, is it a crime? She was so unreasonable.” I told myself in my heart. I replied her again, “Ah!!! Mum! I am having a stomach ache, probably I ate too much just now! I need to go to the toilet! I will go and help you immediately when I come out of the toilet!”

That was actually a lie. I did not know why I said that out. Perhaps I wanted to watch the show too much. Half an hour later, my mum called me again, similarly asking me to help her out. At that time, the show had ended. Hence, I reluctantly went into the kitchen to help. “My dearest daughter, do you know why I wanted you to help me?” Mum questioned me affectionately. I replied her, “I don’t know.” She then continued, “When I was young, my mum told me that it is important for a girl to know how to cook as when we grow up and get married, we have to cook for our family. So I wanted to teach you now such that you would not find that it is very difficult to cook in future.”

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“Mum… I… lied to you just now. I didn’t have a stomachache and I lied to you because I want to watch the television show… Sorry…” Mum did not say anything. I looked up at her. I apologized repeatedly for one minute. My mum then told me, “I wouldn’t blame you, because I know that you know you are wrong and is regretful…”

                At that moment, I realized that my mum loves me and was not the kind of character that I thought that she was – unreasonable. She was actually very reasonable and did things for my own benefit and not for her benefit. I should not have thought that way at all and should not have lied. I really regretted lying.